waterlogged

1. 1.

   (of soil) soft and watery

   “the ground was boggy under foot”

   “a marshy coastline”

   “miry roads”

   “wet mucky lowland”

   “muddy barnyard”

   “quaggy terrain”

   “the sloughy edge of the pond”

   “swampy bayous”

   Synonymsboggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysoggysquashyswampy

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Questions about waterlogged

What does waterlogged mean?

waterlogged means "(of soil) soft and watery".

How many syllables are in waterlogged?

waterlogged has 3 syllables: water-log-ged. The stress falls on "water". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌlɑɡd/.

What is another word for waterlogged?

Close synonyms include boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is waterlogged a common word?

waterlogged is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.